2-359-949 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Victor Hugo, French novelist, in exile in Guernsey, 1866. Victor Hugo with, amongst others, Juliette Drouet, and his grandchildren Georges and Jeanne Hugo. Hugo was a central figure in the French Romantic movement. In 1848, the year of revolutions in Europe, he was elected to the Assembly as a Republican but after Napoleon III's coup d'etat he was sent into exile, living in Guernsey in the Channel Islands until 1870. An actress, Juliette Drouet was his mistress. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, 8th album, Editions MD, Paris.